cannot set conf.py on readthedocs advanced settigns

[RunningLeon]

hi, recently find that there's no option to set conf.py of sphinx as before. So how to set docs/en/conf.py and docs/zh_cn/conf.py for different languages?

[humitos]

Hi @RunningLeon 👋🏼 . We don't support setting build options from the WebUI anymore. Read more about this in https://blog.readthedocs.com/migrate-configuration-v2/

You need to add a .readthedocs.yaml file to your project and use sphinx.configuration to define your conf.py. See https://blog.readthedocs.com/migrate-configuration-v2/

Let us know if that works for you.

[RunningLeon]

@humitos hi, thanks for your quick reply. But it still cannot build docs of Chinese version. Here are Changes:
1 Add conf.py in .readthedocs.yaml and create another .readthedocs-zh_cn.yaml for Chinese version as in PR.
2. Change to the path of config as .readthedocs-zh_cn.yaml and saved in Advanced settings page.
3. But as the PR triggers, the build of zh-cn version still uses .readthedocs.yaml instead of .readthedocs-zh_cn.yaml as the log shows: https://readthedocs.org/api/v2/build/23647719.txt

[humitos]

I suppose that you should be getting a form validation error since the filename must be called .readthedocs.yaml. It can be named differently. So, you may need to put it under a different directory, like docs/zh-cn/.readthedocs.yaml

[RunningLeon]

Hi, thanks. putting the file .readthedocs.yaml in docs/en and docs/zh_cn works.